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Vampire hunter or vampire slayer is a fictional occupation in folklore and fiction which specializes in finding vampires, and sometimes other supernatural creatures. A vampire hunter is usually described as having extensive knowledge of vampires and other monstrous or undead creatures, including their powers and weaknesses, and uses this knowledge to effectively combat them.
- 20 Robert Neville
- 19 The Frog Brothers
- 18 Father Callahan
- 17 Vanessa Van Helsing
- 16 Carl Kolchak
- 15 CIB
- 14 Anita Blake
- 13 Jack Crow
- 12 Melaka Fray
- 11 Solomon Kane
In Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel I Am Legendand many of its adaptations, Robert Neville is the last man on Earth. He is the only individual who's avoided being infected by a disease that turns people into vampires. Neville spends his days dispatching sleeping vampires by driving stakes through their hearts and his nights barricaded in his house as ...
Santa Carla, a small California beach town, is infested with vampires. While most people spend their days playing in the sun and sand, unaware of what lurks in the shadows after dark, brothers Edgar and Alan Frog know the truth. When they meet the new guy in town, Sam, they attempt to use comic books to teach him about the vampire threat. They even...
Father Donald Callahan is a creation of horror novelist Stephen King. He originally appeared in his book ‘Salem’s Lot where he first learned about vampires. In that book, the troubled alcoholic priest leads his first vampire hunts. However, when Callahan encounters Kurt Barlow, the head vampire, he loses his faith and is forced to drink Barlow’s bl...
Vanessa, from the TV show Van Helsing, is a descendent of Abraham Van Helsing. However, she was adopted at a young age and has no knowledge of her heritage. So, when vampires rise and take control of the world, she’s quickly taken out. Three years later, she wakes up and learns that she’s an almost perfect vampire killing machine. She has amazing f...
Carl Kolchak sees dead people — and all kinds of supernatural monsters. The protagonist of 1972 and 1973 TV movies and of a one-season TV series from 1974 to 1975, Kolchak is a journalist who keeps finding himself investigating stories whose causes turn out to be supernatural. Kolchak sees the supernatural threats to the world clearly, but he has t...
Those who are familiar with the 1998 British mini-series Ultravioletwill know that CIB's listing here is a bit of a misdirect. While the vampire hunting organization says they are part of CIB as a cover story, the group is actually the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. It has the joint support of the British government and the Vatican and ...
Anita Blake, the protagonist of Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake: Vampire Hunterseries is, as the title states, a professional vampire hunter who works with the police to stop supernatural threats. In Blake’s world, the existence of supernatural creatures is public knowledge, which means someone must control the creatures that break the law. That ...
In John Carpenter’s 1998 film Vampires, Jack Crow leads a team of vampire hunters — until they are almost all slaughtered in an ambush by the first, and therefore strongest, vampire. Crow, one of only two of the team’s survivors, goes after the master vampire who is looking for a Catholic relic that will allow him to become invulnerable to sunlight...
Melaka Fray from the Fraygraphic novel is a vampire slayer, she just doesn’t know it. Far in the future, long after Buffy’s time, Fray learns about her calling. There hasn't been a slayer for a long time because the forces of darkness were mostly killed off, but in Fray’s time they start to make a comeback. Although Fray had the enhanced fighting a...
Solomon Kane, a creation of Robert E. Howard (who also created Conan the Barbarian), is a dour late 16thcentury Puritan who dresses all in black and wanders the world fighting monsters and demons of all kinds, including vampires. The character appeared in a number of stories in pulp magazines but has also been the subject of a film, comics, and eve...
- Talia Burns (First Kill) First Kill is the newest vampire TV series available to stream on Netflix. This series features a family of vampires and a family of vampire hunters.
- Rayna Cruz (The Vampire Diaries) The Vampire Diaries is considered the best vampire TV show of today, but it has a tendency to romanticize the bloodsucking creature of the night.
- Robert Neville (I Am Legend) While I Am Legend follows some rules associated with vampire movies, it focuses on the apocalyptic aspect as much as the deadly vampires that hunt at night.
- Jack Crow (Vampires) In this film, Jack Crow goes on the hunt, with a couple of helpful companions, to avenge his vampire hunting crew after they are all killed by a powerful vampire.
- Blade — 'Blade' (1998) Definitely the coolest vampire hunter out there, Blade popularized the leather jacket and black sunglasses look a whole year before The Matrix.
- Buffy Summers — 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' (1997 - 2003) While Buffy began life in the 1992 movie of the same name, played by Kristy Swanson, it was her revival in the popular television series that made her a cultural icon.
- Edgar and Alan Frog — 'The Lost Boys' (1987) A classic from the '80s, The Lost Boys remains one of the most famous vampire movies ever. When brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move to California with their mom, they cross paths with a pack of teenage vampires.
- Sam and Dean Winchester — "Supernatural" (2005 - 2020) Across its 15-year run, Supernatural's Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) Winchester tussled with basically every horror creature imaginable.
A Vampire Hunter is a person that hunts vampires or hybrids usually with the intention of permanently destroying them. Not to be confused with Supernatural Hunters such as the Brotherhood of the Five or Rayna Cruz, normal vampire hunters often keep themselves physically and mentally strong in order to be able to seek out and face their opponents. They often use special weapons, surprise or ...
Jeremy Gilbert. Jeremy Gilbert was a vampire hunter and medium in Mystic Falls where he discovered that he was a potential member of the Five. He activated his Hunter's Mark upon the death of fellow member Connor Jordan. After the death of Silas, he has since left Mystic Falls to hunt vampires across the Globe. Alive.
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Blade, a vampire hunter featured by Marvel Comics and a trilogy of films of the same name, as well a television series and an anime. In his original comic appearances, Blade is a highly skilled human with immunity to vampirism. In later appearances as well as in the films, he is a dhampir, a half-vampire.
